Want to hear a sad fact of life?
The opportunities and situations we are afforded are largely determined by the circumstances and locations in which we are born.
That's sad.
Oh yes, no matter how optimistic or egalitarian everyone claims the world (or at least the US) to be, the fates are not kind to everyone. Pardon me, Jesus was not kind to everyone.
Opportunity is such a commodity.
A great example of this is child labor. Florence Kelley, a famous American social worker and reformer who successfully made great strides in working conditions for women and children during the late 19th century. In the in-class essay speech we read, Kelley uses emotional appeals and pithy diction to reel listeners in and gain rapport for her cause; her skills of rhetoric are highly effective, as they pull at the heart strings and establish a tone of immediacy to encourage a call to action: voting rights for women.
She describes the lifestyles of the children she defends. These girls do not know homework, candies, and stuffed animals, pink elephants of a childhood stripped away. They are instead replaced by the shackles of capitalism and corporate greed. They do not know stories that provide a fairy tale ambiance to tickle the imagination, to stir the heart, ease the mind. "Once upon a time" does not exist for them. That's sad. It is against this horrible reality that Florence Kelley fights.
The problem of child labor, while greatly reduced around the world, still persists today. Companies like Nike and Wal-Mart still benefit from the advantages of bone-cheap labor in lesser developed countries such as in southeast Asia.
The opportunities and situations we are afforded are largely determined by the circumstances and locations in which we are born.
That's sad.
Oh yes, no matter how optimistic or egalitarian everyone claims the world (or at least the US) to be, the fates are not kind to everyone. Pardon me, Jesus was not kind to everyone.
Opportunity is such a commodity.
A great example of this is child labor. Florence Kelley, a famous American social worker and reformer who successfully made great strides in working conditions for women and children during the late 19th century. In the in-class essay speech we read, Kelley uses emotional appeals and pithy diction to reel listeners in and gain rapport for her cause; her skills of rhetoric are highly effective, as they pull at the heart strings and establish a tone of immediacy to encourage a call to action: voting rights for women.
She describes the lifestyles of the children she defends. These girls do not know homework, candies, and stuffed animals, pink elephants of a childhood stripped away. They are instead replaced by the shackles of capitalism and corporate greed. They do not know stories that provide a fairy tale ambiance to tickle the imagination, to stir the heart, ease the mind. "Once upon a time" does not exist for them. That's sad. It is against this horrible reality that Florence Kelley fights.
The problem of child labor, while greatly reduced around the world, still persists today. Companies like Nike and Wal-Mart still benefit from the advantages of bone-cheap labor in lesser developed countries such as in southeast Asia.
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